Philip Barton Key

Philip Barton Key (12 April 1757-28 July 1815) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-MD 3) from 4 March 1807 to 3 March 1813, succeeding Patrick Magruder and preceding Alexander Contee Hanson.

Biography
Philip Barton Key was born in Charlestown, Cecil County, Maryland in 1757, and he fought for the American loyalists and the British Army during the American Revolutionary War, being captured alongside his whole battalion when the Spanish captured Pensacola, Florida in 1781. In 1785, he returned to Maryland after becoming a lawyer in England, and he served in the House of Delegates from 1794 to 1799, as Mayor of Annapolis from 1797 to 1798, as a district court judge from 1801 to 1802, and in the US House of Representatives from 1807 to 1813. He died in 1815.